Opening the journey with 'Café del Mar' in Ricardo Villalobos' hands already sets the tone: nine and a half minutes at 128 BPM that stretch the Energy 52 anthem into infinitely patient tech house. It is the longest cut on the record and the doorway into 25 remixes revisiting the catalogue of Superstition, the Hamburg label whose Bandcamp now lives among remasters of L.S.G., Mijk van Dijk and company.
From there the climb is quick. Oliver Lieb — solo or behind his L.S.G. alias — is the thread that repeats most: six cuts carry his name, from the hypnotic trance of track two to the 'Subraumstimulation' reworked by WJ Henze. The central block settles between 132 and 139 BPM: Johannes Heil rewinds Thomas Schumacher back to 1995 with his 'Back to 95 Mix', Pascal F.E.O.S. hardens 'Auto Agression' and Joey Beltram leaves his signature on 'Strobot'.
The sequencing trick lies in the valleys. 'Fragile' and 'Delivery' drop the sheet to 102 BPM, and John Tejada's reading of 'How Deep Is Your Love?' clocks in at 66: an almost ambient breather in the middle of the storm. From there the record rises toward its second summit, 'Schöneberg', nine minutes from Technasia returning the Mijk van Dijk, Marmion and Marcos Lopez classic to peak time.
For the close, Sterac takes a second turn — he had already signed 'Schwupp' — and dismantles 'Confusing The Sun' before 'Netherworld', in the revision Lieb himself made in 2004, sends the journey off in a progressive key at 135 BPM. Heard front to back, this is not an inventory but a session: it starts contemplative, squeezes for a good hour and releases the air exactly where it should. A label's memory told by the people who remixed it.
Sources: Bandcamp · Superstition Records